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The Bengal Gneiss is highly foliated, which occurs in the Eastern Ghats, Odisha (known as Khodolites after Khond tribes in Koraput and Bolangir districts), stretching over Manbhum and Ilazaribagh districts of Jharkhand, Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh and Salem district of Tamil Nadu. They also occur in the Son Valley, Meghalaya Plateau and Mikir Ilills.These formations are very thinly foliated. For the first time these rocks were identified in the Midnapur district of West Bengal.